Brainspotting therapy
Brainspotting Therapy
BRAINSPOTTING THERAPY, for:
Abusive experiences | Anger | Anxiety | Attacks | Attachment problems | Bullying | Critical incidents | Drug & Alcohol use| Epilepsy | Fibromyalgia | Flashbacks | Insomnia & Sleeping difficulties Inc. | Sleepwalking | Panic Attacks | Phobias | Road Traffic Accidents | PTSD | Rape | Shootings | Sports Performance, Trauma, & 'Yips' | Stress & Burnout | Involuntary Movements | Trauma | Traumatic Bereavement | Witnessing a traumatic event
Brainspotting/BSP in brief:
Brainspotting is not counselling or talking therapy per se. Brainspotting would be classed a 'Neuro-therapy' which is a scientifically based approach to working with your whole nervous system and mind. I can use BSP either on its own or integrate along with talking therapy or other psychotherapies. BSP has also been known as 'Natural Flow EMDR', and yet is very different to EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing).
"Where you look affects how you feel" says founder of Brainspotting, Dr. David Grand.
When we are feeling stressed or tired of someone we may 'roll our eyes', this is a sub/unconscious way of coping with that stress or some other emotion. Or we may look to a certain position when we are feeling a particular way, or trying to access something such as a memory. When we feel, there is a correlating 'eye position' to hook into that feeling. With a skilled and highly attuned therapist, work can be done in this way.
When you are stressed you may have noticed you feel chest pains, or have an upset stomach, and although you sense these physical sensations in the body - it is your brain where you feel and process them. When certain parts of your brain are 'off-line' or doing something else, you may not feel… this is common in trauma recovery.
Brainspotting/BSP works by using eye positions to 'activate' and 'process' difficulties, such as stress or anxiety, that are held in the brain & body. Many approaches to therapy only touch on this aspect of the work, whereas BSP goes deep into the sub cortical regions of the brain/body.
If for example: If you feel anxious, BSP technique will help you start you to be able to deal with that anxiety by working from a 'body up' subcortical/subconscious region, through to a neocortex/conscious level and back through, utilizing all the regions of the brain/body. This is really what is known as 'processing' in Brainspotting.
A lot of people's anxiety is caused by an instinct to avoid some other emotion, and so because the something emotion is avoided, the process continues. This is why anxious people continue to feel anxious for so long.
An example of this might be "I'm not going out, it's horrible" and so you avoid a 'horrible emotion'. With Brainspotting we bypass the cognitive/neocortex (the thinking part of the brain) and start to work with the roots of the where the difficulty resides, with the felt sense of the problem. Sometimes it is not enough to simply think differently, or challenge your thoughts, as this would only dissociate you further from your experience, perpetuating the problem.
BSP helps your brain start to deal with, and cope with, whatever is bothering it without too much talking or trying to work it out - it just happens. The more we allow ourselves to do this, the better our brains get at it. The amazing thing about the brain is that it is quick at adapting, and effective at healing from difficult situations - given the right conditions.
BSP is can help your system to become clear of the stuff that is going on within you. It might be from the past, present, or the idea of a future event. It is about what is affecting you in the 'here and now;. Furthermore, it helps your brain to 'file away' and process the trauma, or difficulty that has become stuck.
I believe Brainspotting gives a deeper, profound relational state of self, whereby the therapist is highly attuned to their client. For me, I believe it functions to integrate the whole 'self', creating a 'congruence' and improved relationship between one's brain, body, mind and spirit. I believe that it is the congruence between these regions that heals, and that this congruence is formed through the neurons in your brain adapting, being strengthened, and even new neurons being formed.
I have trained with official the official Brainspotting trainers Dr. Mark Grixti (UK), Dr. David Grand (USA), and Dr. Roby Abeles (Australia), through BSP UK (Brainspotting UK) & Aleces (Brainspotting Barcelona, Spain). It is only these trainings that are recognized as part of Brainspotting Certification.
If you are interested in BSP/Brainspotting then get in touch
Abusive experiences | Anger | Anxiety | Attacks | Attachment problems | Bullying | Critical incidents | Drug & Alcohol use| Epilepsy | Fibromyalgia | Flashbacks | Insomnia & Sleeping difficulties Inc. | Sleepwalking | Panic Attacks | Phobias | Road Traffic Accidents | PTSD | Rape | Shootings | Sports Performance, Trauma, & 'Yips' | Stress & Burnout | Involuntary Movements | Trauma | Traumatic Bereavement | Witnessing a traumatic event
Brainspotting/BSP in brief:
Brainspotting is not counselling or talking therapy per se. Brainspotting would be classed a 'Neuro-therapy' which is a scientifically based approach to working with your whole nervous system and mind. I can use BSP either on its own or integrate along with talking therapy or other psychotherapies. BSP has also been known as 'Natural Flow EMDR', and yet is very different to EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing).
"Where you look affects how you feel" says founder of Brainspotting, Dr. David Grand.
When we are feeling stressed or tired of someone we may 'roll our eyes', this is a sub/unconscious way of coping with that stress or some other emotion. Or we may look to a certain position when we are feeling a particular way, or trying to access something such as a memory. When we feel, there is a correlating 'eye position' to hook into that feeling. With a skilled and highly attuned therapist, work can be done in this way.
When you are stressed you may have noticed you feel chest pains, or have an upset stomach, and although you sense these physical sensations in the body - it is your brain where you feel and process them. When certain parts of your brain are 'off-line' or doing something else, you may not feel… this is common in trauma recovery.
Brainspotting/BSP works by using eye positions to 'activate' and 'process' difficulties, such as stress or anxiety, that are held in the brain & body. Many approaches to therapy only touch on this aspect of the work, whereas BSP goes deep into the sub cortical regions of the brain/body.
If for example: If you feel anxious, BSP technique will help you start you to be able to deal with that anxiety by working from a 'body up' subcortical/subconscious region, through to a neocortex/conscious level and back through, utilizing all the regions of the brain/body. This is really what is known as 'processing' in Brainspotting.
A lot of people's anxiety is caused by an instinct to avoid some other emotion, and so because the something emotion is avoided, the process continues. This is why anxious people continue to feel anxious for so long.
An example of this might be "I'm not going out, it's horrible" and so you avoid a 'horrible emotion'. With Brainspotting we bypass the cognitive/neocortex (the thinking part of the brain) and start to work with the roots of the where the difficulty resides, with the felt sense of the problem. Sometimes it is not enough to simply think differently, or challenge your thoughts, as this would only dissociate you further from your experience, perpetuating the problem.
BSP helps your brain start to deal with, and cope with, whatever is bothering it without too much talking or trying to work it out - it just happens. The more we allow ourselves to do this, the better our brains get at it. The amazing thing about the brain is that it is quick at adapting, and effective at healing from difficult situations - given the right conditions.
BSP is can help your system to become clear of the stuff that is going on within you. It might be from the past, present, or the idea of a future event. It is about what is affecting you in the 'here and now;. Furthermore, it helps your brain to 'file away' and process the trauma, or difficulty that has become stuck.
I believe Brainspotting gives a deeper, profound relational state of self, whereby the therapist is highly attuned to their client. For me, I believe it functions to integrate the whole 'self', creating a 'congruence' and improved relationship between one's brain, body, mind and spirit. I believe that it is the congruence between these regions that heals, and that this congruence is formed through the neurons in your brain adapting, being strengthened, and even new neurons being formed.
I have trained with official the official Brainspotting trainers Dr. Mark Grixti (UK), Dr. David Grand (USA), and Dr. Roby Abeles (Australia), through BSP UK (Brainspotting UK) & Aleces (Brainspotting Barcelona, Spain). It is only these trainings that are recognized as part of Brainspotting Certification.
If you are interested in BSP/Brainspotting then get in touch
Brainspotting Research:
| brainspotting_research.pdf |
| emdr_shapiro_brainspotting.pdf |
| emdr--emi-_brainspotting-_info.pdf |
Videos on Brainspotting:
Dr. David Grand (left) with Chris Rudyard (right)
at Brainspotting Masterclass Barcelona, Spain 2019
